The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


The loss to the Government through
smugglers 10 estimated ct $50. 600, DOC
annually.
a---Life asks: what relation is the
Queen to the Guelph of MexicoP" We
| would simply say, nephew mind; she ID
neither Panama.
AT Bergen, in Norway, is church
constructed of papier-mache, which will
accommodate one thousand persons.
The building is octagon in shape.
SO Bilkinson is settling up his
debts2'' II hear he is. HAS he
squared things with you, yetP' mo.
But 7 m a friend of his. you know. ~
Toaon Topics.
Miss Gushington (eyes riveted on
the cow)-'.Isn't she lovely Mr.. CAL
low?" Mr.. Callow, (eyes riveted on the
pretty but impossible milkmaid)-
"Ya' as. Chicago Tribune.
Isaac Treadway, a veteran and
somewhat noted gambler of st. Louis,
has been fined $50 in the police court
for attempting to win the regard of .
young and handsome married woman.
There is blood in the eye of the ed
itor of Rockland (Me. newspaper, and
when he meets certain type-setter he
will shed it freely. He wrote one of his
finest sentences the other morning, and
when he read "when mourning puppies
fill the sky instead of s.when morning
puppies all the sky" as he had written,
he picked up rock and started for the
composing-room. bent on committing
murder, but his victim had heard the
news and fiown.- Chicago Times.
Dull implies slowness, but not de-
ficiency of intellect Stupid is entirely
negative, and implies lack of perception
resulting from want of intellect. Silly
implies deficiency in intellect or feeble
ness in character, and is applied to
words, writings. manners. Foolish is
applied to actions, and refers to an
abuse OF the intellect-to neglect rather
than deficiency. We blame man who
is foolish, have contempt for the man
who is silly.-Boston Journal of Educa-
ton.
-Danbury, Conn.,. has PAIR Of twins
that not only look and speak almost
exactly alike. but are peculiarly at
tached to one another. They can not
be separated a single day without long,
ing for each others society, and yet
they are both married now. If one is
upon one street and the other on a
different one they can tell by some cleo
trical affinity whether they are APP
preaching each other or getting further
apart. When. one is sick the other is
more or less similarly affected.-M. 7.
Sun.
Ice in Lake Superior stove big
hole in the bow of the steamboat Besse-
mer. She made thirty-nine inches of
water in eight minutes after the acct
dent, and was in imminent danger of
sinking. when Second Mate Chamber
lain saved her from laundering by q
daring act. Taking a pair of blankets,
he had himself lowered over the bow
until he was in the water up to his neck:
then, taking the blankets between his
feet, he got them down by the hole and
the suction drew them in, filling in the
gap so that the pumps kept the steamer
free.-M r San.
-"Hayseed'' beer il the latest
beverage sold in the shops in Maine.
1t is said to be a home made beer
brewed from hops, molasses and yeast
cake. Some half-dozen places at Togus
are selling it, and it is taking the place
of the stronger drinks which the
legal taboo imposed by the rigid
last Legislature is driving out. It is
asserted that ginger is coming into
favor in this section to relieve the
parched throat Of the inebriate, and that
in some places Jamaica ginger and
beer are combined. ~ Philadelphia Press.
The induction balance, which was
first called to the aid of surgery during
the illness of President Garfield. has
now reached the stage of a practical
instrument. The description of its
latest form is an interesting expose
given by DR.. Girdner, who has used it
with success. With the induction ball
ance to locate the bullet and the tele-
phone probe to obtain its exact depth
below the skin, there can no longer be
any excuse for the death of persons shot
from failure to find the missile. The
balance will, it is likely, soon be as
familiar in the hands of the surgeon as
the lancet. Electrical World.
"A Philadelphia car-building COM
pany has nearly completed a contract
for building $50 cars of various kinds
for railway company on the La Plata
river region, in South America. The
road is two hundred miles long, travers-
ing level plateau similar to the western
frontier. Each car is drawn by three
horses, which are changed at stations
ten miles apart. The road is operated
much cheaper by horsepower than by
steam, as coal is $12 ton and horses
only $40 head. Some Of the cars are
sleepers, with two tiers OF berths, the
upper one being closed up to the cell
inu in tho davffr,o ard <Lo 1nxxx-.